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home_run: Ruby’s Date and DateTime Classes, But 20-200x Faster

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:28:24 GMT

home_run is an implementation of ruby’s Date/DateTime classes in C, with much better performance (20-200x) than the version in the standard library, while being almost completely compatible.

Jeremy Evans

Ruby 1.9.2 Released

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:27:54 GMT

Yuki (Yugui) Sonoda has just announced the release of the stable version of Ruby 1.9.2!

Building “skinny daemons” in Ruby

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:37:31 GMT

[W]e’ve been having a lot of fun writing a series of small, self-contained web apps .. When we’re building these kinds of applications, which are often meant as low-ceremony apps targeted at a very specific purpose, or as service utilities, a lot of the time we don’t want to go through the hassle associated with a “normal” web app.

Dave Hrycyszyn

Mongomatic: A New Ruby MongoDB Library Hits The Scene

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:36:16 GMT

Back in June, I did a comparison of Mongoid and MongoMapper, the two best known MongoDB libraries for Ruby. Now, Ben Myles has brought another to the fore: Mongomatic.

Making A Code Coverage Tool for Ruby 1.9

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:25:17 GMT

Aaron Patterson (of Nokogiri fame) has written a post for the AT&T Interactive blog about writing a code coverage tool with Ruby 1.9:

Does Ruby Suffer From An Overabundance Of Choice?

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:02:27 GMT

In "So You Want To Be a Ruby Dev" Kevin W Gisi presents a tongue in cheek narrative of a new Ruby developer being guided through the choices they have to make. (It's being discussed on Hacker News too - some good comments there.)

Microsoft Tires of IronRuby; Jimmy Schementi Jumps Ship

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:12:19 GMT

In April, we wrote about IronRuby hitting 1.0 and Microsoft's "3 years with Ruby [paying] off." It's sad, then, to read today that program manager Jimmy Schementi is leaving Microsoft citing a rapidly decreasing interest in dynamic languages (other than JavaScript) at the software giant.

Lyle Johnson Retires from the FXRuby GUI Toolkit

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:10:01 GMT

Yesterday, Lyle Johnson of the FXRuby GUI toolkit project stood aside as the project's maintainer, effectively retiring the project:

“and” vs && and “or” vs || in Ruby

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:55:55 GMT

If you use Ruby long enough, you will discover the and and or operators. These appear at first glance to be synonyms for && and ||. You will then be tempted to use these English oprators in place of && and ||, for the sake of improved readability. Assuming you yield to that temptation, you will eventually find yourself rudely surprised that and and or don’t behave quite like their symbolic kin...

Avdi Grimm

Michael Hartl’s Rails 3 Tutorial Book

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:33:14 GMT

The Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (a.k.a. railstutorial.org) by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps. Michael has put together a great Rails 2.3 tutorial, releasing it all for free online chapter by chapter. Now, Michael's going three steps further:

Mailman – Like Sinatra for E-mail

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:06:27 GMT

Mailman is an incoming email processing microframework. You point it at a source of email, such as a POP3 account or a Maildir, and it will execute routes based on the messages that come in.

Exploiting Enterprise Software (like Hazelcast) with JRuby

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:08:50 GMT

Due to the nigh insurmountable work of Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo, Ola Bini and Nick Sieger along with their team we have direct access to Java libraries and thus to a plethora of usefulness. Sometimes I think we forget how lucky we are, the Ruby community, to have such awesome people simplifying our lives, anyway, thats quite enough arse kissing. So, on with the show...

Anthony Buck

RubyConf Uruguay – October 29-30 in Montevideo, Uruguay

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:30:14 GMT

We'd like to invite you to RubyConf Uruguay, which will take place this October on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th, in Montevideo. This will be a single-track conference aimed at developers who want to learn or get up-to-date with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Testing, SCRUM, JavaScript, SQL vs NoSQL, etc.

Ruby on Rails 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Available

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:55:45 GMT

High off Baltimore Pandemic and Yellow Tops, I believe we promised a release candidate shortly after RailsConf. As things usually go in open source, we gorged ourselves on fixes and improvements instead. But all to your benefit. We’ve had 842 commits by 125 authors since the release of the last beta!

14 Ruby and Rails Jobs for August 2010

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:35:33 GMT

It's been a couple of months since the last job round up but the Ruby Inside job board has been hopping! There are 14 live listings to go over today and they're not all in San Francisco. Jobs in Denver and Maryland bring in a bit of interesting variety.

Redmine 1.0 Released: Ruby’s Top Project Management Webapp Hits Maturity

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:53:03 GMT

It's out, it's out. Redmine 1.0 is released!

Free “Secrets of Superstar Programming Productivity” Videos from Giles Bowkett

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:38:18 GMT

Giles Bowkett (Ruby Inside's top Ruby presenter of 2008) has released a series of free videos called "Secrets of Superstar Programming Productivity" that could interest some of you:

Euruko 2010 Presentations

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:39:49 GMT

Florian Hanke got in touch to tell me that presentations and photos from the recent Euruko 2010 European Ruby conference are now online.

Ruby Tracker: An Online Dependency Tracker for your Ruby Projects

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:07:36 GMT

Ruby Tracker is a new webapp from EnvyLabs that tracks dependencies for your Ruby and Rails applications. It alerts you whenever libraries you depend on are updated or have new versions released. This is all in aid of keeping up to date.

New Array and Enumerable methods in Ruby 1.9.2

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:03:18 GMT

In Ruby, dealing with Arrays and similar objects is pretty fun. And we have gotten more possibilities with Ruby 1.9.2 :)

Jan Lelis

AdhearsionConf – An Event for Ruby’s Leading Telephony Framework – August 14 & 15, 2010

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:57:48 GMT

We would like to announce the first AdhearsionConf to be held in San Francisco from August 14th to the 15th. Jay Phillips, the creator of Adhearsion, will be joining us for two days of talks, discussions, hacking and pair programming on all things Adhearsion.

Jason Goecke

Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 Released; Final Release Due In August

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:41:18 GMT

Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 has just been released. This is a release candidate of Ruby 1.9.2. Ruby 1.9.2 will be mostly compatible with 1.9.1, except the following changes:

Passenger 3 Tech Preview 3: Easier Deployment with Passenger Lite

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:55:06 GMT

Phusion Passenger 3 introduces a new component to the existing lineup: Phusion Passenger Lite. When it comes to usage, its interface is almost identical to that of Mongrel and Thin.

Could Ruby be Apple’s Language and API Future?

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:31:08 GMT

There has been a shift in development landscape over at Apple. John Siracusa of Ars Technica recently published an article about Apple’s language and API future. I believe Apple is preparing to transition to Ruby as their next default language.

Parveen Kaler

The Great Ruby Benchmark Shootout (on Windows)

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:54:12 GMT

This post contains the results of a Ruby shootout on Windows that I recently conducted. [..] All tests were run on Windows 7 x64, on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 GHz, 8 GB DDR2 RAM, with two 500 GB 7200 rpm disks.

Antonio Cangiano

Gregg Pollack on Screencasting and Podcasting for Developers (in 10 minutes)

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:23:52 GMT

I've been itching to do some audio or video interviews on Ruby Inside - here's the first! Gregg Pollack of EnvyLabs and Ruby5 (previously of RailsEnvy fame) is doing a screencasting and podcasting workshop at BizConf so I thought I'd ask him what that entails and how developers can benefit from learning about these media. (I like things short and simple so the interview is just 10 minutes long.)

Isolate – Simple, per-project RubyGem sandboxing

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:00:33 GMT

Isolate is a tool for managing RubyGems by including them within the project that requires them. At Goldstar, we recently switched from Bundler to Isolate for managing our gem dependencies.

Quality Interviews with 10 Rubyists (and Bob Martin)

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:45:21 GMT

At RailsConf 2010, Fabio Akita (of AkitaOnRails.com) went crazy with his camcorder and interviewed a wide selection of Rubyists, as well as famous C++ and Agile manifesto developer Bob Martin.

sexy_scopes: Syntactic sugar for ActiveRecord 3.0 and Arel

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:23:36 GMT

sexy_scope is a small wrapper around Arel::Attribute that adds a little syntactic sugar when creating scopes in ActiveRecord. It adds an attribute class method which takes an attribute name and returns an Arel::Attribute wrapper, which responds to common operators to return predicates objects that can be used as arguments to ActiveRecord::Base.where.

Samuel Lebeau

Glyph – A Ruby-Powered Document Authoring Framework

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:00:46 GMT

I’ve been writing technical documents for a living for the past four years, and I can tell you: there is no easy way to go about it. I love Textile and Markdown. When people aren’t looking, I even use them at work to generate HTML code, because it’s just so much faster.

Mongoid vs MongoMapper: Two Great MongoDB Libraries for Ruby

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:25:55 GMT

It's been almost a year since Ric Roberts posted about using MongoDB and MongoMapper and I've seen an explosion in the number of people using these tools in the Ruby community since then (I use them heavily on coder.io too).

The Road to Passenger 3

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:50:39 GMT

In January 2008, I lamented that the lack of a true mod_ruby was damaging Ruby's viability on the Web (which led to 100+ posts in the comments section!) but within a couple of months Phusion released Passenger (then known as mod_rails) and Ruby webapp deployment hasn't been the same since.

Hampton Catlin’s Ruby Survey 2010

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:03:55 GMT

I finally got off my ass and got the results of Ruby Survey 2008/2009 online. Some really interesting stuff in there! And, along with releasing that information, I'm launching the 2010 survey with more questions about testing frameworks and etc.

Hampton Catlin

The Ruby Community’s Information Marketing Mania

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:00:05 GMT

Hi - this is a guest post by Giles Bowkett. I made at least $10,000 in the last few months selling videos on my personal blog (including at least $5,000 selling a video about how to have a terrific programming career, and at least $5,000 selling a video about how to sell videos on your blog).

Washington state children’s charity needs a Rails developer

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:00:25 GMT

I received this e-mail today:

MongoMapper 0.8 Released

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:16:38 GMT

Features added include a sexy query language, scopes, attr_accessible, a fancy cache key helper, a :typecast option for array/set keys, and a bajillion little improvements. Let’s run through each of them just for fun.

John Nunemaker

The State of Building PDF Documents in Ruby

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:40:33 GMT

If you've ever generated PDFs in Ruby before, you know that it can be both tedious and difficult using the standard go-to PDF libraries out there. Let's face it, we're web developers. Coming from HTML+CSS-based layouts, writing Ruby code for that stuff is a major pain.

Jared Pace

Ruby 1.9 Fibers + EventMachine for Big Ruby Webapp Performance Gains

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:08:55 GMT

Developers hankering for more performance from their Rack and Rails applications are using Ruby 1.9 fibers and event-based EventMachine-driven libraries as a way to boost the performance of their applications - in opposition to scaling by merely running multiple processes or using threads.

Faye: Simple Pub/Sub Messaging for the Web (and Ruby!)

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:46:44 GMT

Faye is an easy-to-use publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol. It provides message servers for Node.js and Rack, and clients for use in Node and Ruby programs and in the browser.

James Coglan

Fog: A Powerful “Cloud Services” Gem

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:37:34 GMT

fog is a Ruby gem by Wesley Beary to control a variety of cloud services through a unified API. It deals with both server cloud and storage based services and supports Amazon S3 and Rackspace Files; as well as servers and on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Servers, Terremark vCloud and Slicehost. Support is also available for Amazon ELB and SimpleDB.

Google PageRank In Five Lines Of Ruby

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:06:59 GMT

Giles Bowkett - Ruby Inside's Top Presenter of 2008 - contributes a guest post:

Public Domain-Suffix Extraction Library for Ruby

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:05:35 GMT

The Public Suffix List is a cross-vendor initiative to provide an accurate list of domain name suffixes. [..] It is available for use in any software, but was originally created to meet the needs of browser manufacturers.

Clojure, from a Ruby perspective

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:51:24 GMT

Fogus' recent article "clojure.rb" speculates about why there seem to be so many Ruby users adopting Clojure. As a Ruby user who adopted Clojure, I figured I'd write about my experiences.

Brian Carper

Fastr – A new EventMachine-based Ruby Web framework

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:26:43 GMT

Rails can scale, but it is not inherently very good when it comes to an individual instance’s performance. While this is hopefully changing in Rails 3, I wanted to see what kind of concurrency and performance I could get out of a simple EventMachine web application. Thus, fastr was born. [..]

DataMapper 1.0 Released

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:12:34 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that we released DataMapper 1.0 "Vermouth" earlier today.

Dan Kubb

Escape_utils – Fast HTML and JavaScript escaping routines for Ruby

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:00:24 GMT

Being as though we’re all html escaping everything these days, why not make it faster?